Research Catalog

Title

Culture and liberation : exile writings, 1966-1985 / Alex La Guma ; afterword by Bill Nasson ; edited by Christopher J. Lee, Albie Sachs.

Author

La Guma, Alex

Publication

London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2022.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lee, Christopher J.
• Sachs, Albie, 1935-

Description

581 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

One of South Africa's best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress. Persecuted and imprisoned by the South African regime in the 1950s and 60s, La Guma went into exile in the United Kingdom with his wife and children in 1966, eventually serving as the ANC's diplomatic representative for Latin America and the Caribbean in Cuba. Culture and Liberation captures a different dimension of his long writing career by collecting his political journalism, literary criticism, and other short pieces published while he was in exile. This volume spans La Guma's political and literary life in exile through accounts of his travels to Algeria, Lebanon, Vietnam, Soviet Central Asia, and elsewhere, along with his critical assessments of Paul Robeson, Nadine Gordimer, Maxim Gorky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Pablo Neruda, among other writers. The first dedicated collection of La Guma's exile writing, Culture and Liberation restores an overlooked dimension of his life and work, while opening a window on a wider world of cultural and political struggles in Africa, Asia, and Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century.

Series Statement

The Africa list

Uniform Title

• Works. Selections
• Africa list (Seagull Books)

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• La Guma, Alex
• Exiles' writings, African (English)
• Anti-apartheid movements > South Africa
• Politics and government
• South Africa > Politics and government
• South Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Political Worlds -- ch. One Great Power Conspiracy: Review -- ch. Two The Time Has Come: New Forms of Struggle Face the South African Coloured Community -- ch. Three The Time Has Come: S. A. Coloured People's Social and Economic Deterioration -- ch. Four The Time Has Come -- ch. Five The Time Has Come: The Coloured People Must Prepare to Bear Arms for Liberation -- ch. Six The Coloured Cadets Bill -- ch. Seven The Coloured People of South Africa -- ch. Eight Pumpkins and Dark Skins -- ch. Nine On the Coloured People -- ch. Ten The Immorality Act: South Africa's Sex Law -- ch. Eleven Dialogue A Gross Betrayal' -- ch. Twelve Apartheid and the Coloured People of South Africa -- ch. Thirteen Vietnam: A People's Victory -- ch. Fourteen Whither South Africa? -- ch. Fifteen Apartheid Coloured Council Flounders -- ch. Sixteen Africa and the USSR: A Friendly Handshake -- ch. Seventeen Apartheid Is Not Just a Regional Problem -- ch. Eighteen Caribbean Against Apartheid -- ch. Nineteen T̀his Is Our Vanguard, a Vanguard of Communists' -- ch. Twenty Caribbean -- Nobody's Backyard -- ch. Twenty-One Israel and South Africa -- Where the Vultures Perch -- ch. Twenty-Two Message to the People and the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam -- ch. Twenty-Three Israel-South Africa: The Unholy Alliance -- ch. Twenty-Four Cuba and Africa -- ch. Twenty-Five Tribute to Indira Gandhi -- pt. II Cultural Scenes and Arguments -- ch. One The Third Afro-Asian Writers' Conference -- ch. Two Culture and Apartheid in South Africa -- ch. Three Culture and Revolution -- ch. Four African Culture and National Liberation -- ch. Five Paul Robeson and Africa -- ch. Six The Condition of Culture in South Africa -- ch. Seven GDR Opera Supports Liberation Struggle -- ch. Eight Culture and Liberation -- ch. Nine Has Art Failed South Africa? -- ch. Ten To Alternate Member of the Politbureau, CPSU CC, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, Comrade Sharaf R. Rashidov -- ch. Eleven Report of the Acting Secretary General -- ch. Twelve Final Speech, Secretary General of the Afro-Asian Writers Association -- ch. Thirteen Ẁalk Among the Multitudes' -- ch. Fourteen To Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the CPSU CC, President of the USSR Supreme Soviet -- ch. Fifteen Is There a South African National Culture? -- pt. III Literary Criticism and the Writing Life -- ch. One Literature and Life -- ch. Two Address by Lotus Award Winner -- ch. Three A Poet Is Born -- ch. Four On Short Stories -- ch. Five In Memory of Hutch: Alfred Hutchinson -- ch. Six Lust without Passion -- ch. Seven Alexander Solzhenitsyn: L̀ife through a Crooked Eye' -- ch. Eight Hello or Goodbye, Athol Fugard? -- ch. Nine Against Literary Apartheid -- ch. Ten Sounds of a Cowhide Drum by Oswald Joseph Mtshali -- ch. Eleven I Came Here to Sing: A Tribute to Pablo Neruda -- ch. Twelve South African Freedom Poetry -- ch. Thirteen South African Writing under Apartheid -- ch. Fourteen What I Learned from Maxim Gorky -- pt. IV Five Stories and One Play -- ch. One Come Back to Tashkent -- ch. Two The Man in the Tree -- ch. Three The Exile -- ch. Four Late Edition -- ch. Five Thang's Bicycle -- ch. Six Blankets -- pt. V Interviews and Memoir -- ch. One Alex La Guma, South African Author Recently Settled in London: Interview with Robert Serumaga -- ch. Two A Home Away from Home -- ch. Three Why I Joined the Communist Party -- ch. Four Answers to Our Questionnaire -- ch. Five Why I Joined the Communist Party: Doing Something Useful -- ch. Six Two Letters from Sechaba -- ch. Seven M̀y Books Have Gone Back Home' -- ch. Eight Report of the Secretary General to the Seventh General (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary) Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, September-October, 1983.

Call Number

Sc E 22-1168

ISBN

• 9780857427892
• 085742789X

OCLC

1233306247

Author

La Guma, Alex, author.

Title

Culture and liberation : exile writings, 1966-1985 / Alex La Guma ; afterword by Bill Nasson ; edited by Christopher J. Lee, Albie Sachs.

Publisher

London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Africa list

Africa list (Seagull Books)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Lee, Christopher J., editor.

Sachs, Albie, 1935- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-1168